NOAA’s State of the Climate Report « JoNova

Has the temperature been constant ’til humans industrialized?

Craig Idso noticed that NOAA actually said “people have spent thousands of years building society for one climate and now a new one is being created — one that’s warmer and more extreme”. So NOAA is rewriting history too. The Vikings were never forced out of Greenland due to the nasty cold spell called the Little Ice Age. Glaciers have never shrunk before, the sea has been constant for thousands of years, and the ice cores and boreholes around the world were “dead flat” at 15 degrees C for 5000 years? Don’t think so. Idso has collected hundreds of peer reviewed papers just on the topic of the Medival Warm Period, almost every one of which supports the idea that that o-so-recent period was warmer than now.

- Bishop Hill blog - Pielke Jnr on the Climate Fix

RP Jnr's talk on climate policy is well worth a look, if nothing else for the perspective it gives on UK energy policy. One can't help but be mightily embarrassed by the 'solutions' put in place by our political leaders and mightily concerned that our energy policy is now being dictated by 'Howlin mad' Huhne.

- Bishop Hill blog - UEA on the New Scientist editorial

A few days back I linked to a New Scientist editorial on the Russell review, noting that it was surprisingly critical of CRU. (It's behind a paywall now, so you will have to take my word for it.) I noticed the other day that UEA have issued a rebuttal of sorts, which is, frankly, weird.

Column - It’s not the oil but the slick greens who should scare you | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

In fact, much of the oil from this now-stemmed spill has already disappeared.

Some has been cleaned up from the shore, but Dr Jeffrey Short, who worked for the US Government on the Exxon Valdez spill and is now with the environmental group Oceania, estimates 40 per cent of the oil evaporated once it reached the surface.

Prof Geoffrey Maitland, an energy engineer of Britain’s Imperial College, says microbes are feeding on the rest: “Many people do not realise that oil is a naturally occurring substance and nature has a way of dealing with it.”

Dr Simon Boxall, a marine pollution expert of Southampton University’s National Oceanography Centre, says the Gulf spill was just the equivalent of a drop in an Olympic-size pool anyway, and “for all but a tiny bit of the Gulf , it will be back to normal within a year”.

American Thinker: The Autumn of the Left

Gallup, no haven for conservatives, tells us that conservatives outnumber liberals in every state but Rhode Island. Battleground, whose polling is conducted by a bipartisan team, tells us that sixty percent of Americans, year in and year out, call ourselves "conservative."